Machine for combing cotton, wool, or the like



Sept. 16 1924. 1,508,552

J.,/HORRIDGE ,MACHINE FOR COMBING COTTON, WOOL, OR THE LIKE Filed May 5. 1923 v Arr'y.

Patented Sept. 16, 1924. I

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES HORR-IDGE, OF BOLTON, ENGLAND, ASSIGNO'R TO JOHN HETI-IERING-TON AND SONS LCEMITED, OF MANCHESTER, ENGLAND.

MACHINE FOR COMBING COTTON, WOOL, OR THE LIKE.

Application filed May 5, 1923. Serial No. 636,820.

T all whom it may concern: 1 of the machine, the nut being after- Be it known that I, JAMns HORRIDGE, a wards tightened in order to fix the lever 5 subject of the King of Great Britain, residin the. position to which it has been ading at Bolton, in the county of Lancaster, justed.

5 England, have invented new and useful Im- By these means the adjusting mechanism provements in or Relating to Machines for is easily accessible while it is simple to dis- Combing Cotton, Wool, or the like, of which mantle to allow of new brushes being fitted. the following is a specification. It will be understood that any suitable The invention relates to improvements in means may be employed to operate the ad- 10 machines for combing cotton, wool and the justing mechanism above described, such like and has for its object to provide adas a cam arranged rack and pinion or the justable means for mounting'the stripping like, and that the details of construction brush of a combing machine in such manof the device may be modified without dener that said adjusting mechanism is easily parting from the principle of the inven- 15 accessible and at the same time to render tion. the same capable of being readily dis- What I claim as m invention and desire mantled in order to facilitate the substituto secure by Letters 'atent is tion of new brushes. 1. In a machine for combing cotton, Wool The device is illustrated in the accompanyand the like, means for adjusting the strip- 20 ing drawing wherein 1 represents the main ping brushes comprising a pivoted rockframe of the machine,2represents the brush, ing lever, said lever at one end carrying which is of the usual type, 3 represents the brush shaft upon which the brushes are the cylinder shaft, 4 represents the nipper, mounted, and at the other end provided with shaft and 5 represents a lever mounted with a slot, a bolt on the frame adapted to work capability of oscillating or rocking upon a in said slot, a nut adapted to screw on to stud 6 or it might be a shaft extending the said boltand bear against the face of the: whole length of the machine, if desired, and rocking lever, and an adjusting screw for at one end said lever 5 carries the brush adjusting said lever. shaft 7 upon which the brush 2 is mounted 2. In a combing machine, the combination 30 and at the other end it takes the form of of a cylinder shaft, a lever pivoted intera quadrant in which is provided a slot 8 mediate its ends, a brush carried at one end through which projects a bolt 9 upon which of said lever in osition to contact with screws a nut 10 which may be screwed said cylinder shat, means for adjusting up against the face of the lever 5 and so said lever thereby to carry the brush to- 35 fix or clamp the same against movement, ward or away from the cylinder shaft, and 7 The position of said lever 5 may, after means for securing the lever in adjusted the nut 10 has been loosened be adjusted by position. means of an adjusting screw 11 which passes In testimony whereof I have signed my through a threaded hole in an oflset from name to this specification. the lever 5 and impinges upon the frame JAMES HORRIDGE, 

